Brian Burgoon is Professor of International and Comparative Political Economy at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). He is also Academic Director of the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR) at the UvA. He received his PhD from MIT in 1998 and has been on the UvA faculty since 2001. His research focuses on the politics of economic globalization; of welfare and labor-market policies and standards; and of how economic conditions influence political conflict.

Current positions

Professor of International and Comparative Political Economy at the Dept. of Political Science, UvA

Director of the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR)

Member of AISSR Programme Group, Political Economy and Transnational Governance (PETGOV)

2019

2018

Rooduijn, M., & Burgoon, B. (2018). The Paradox of Wellbeing: Do Unfavorable Socioeconomic and Sociocultural Contexts Deepen or Dampen Radical Left and Right Voting Among the Less Well-Off? Comparative Political Studies, 51(13), 1720-1753. DOI: 10.1177/0010414017720707[details]

Burgoon, B., Koster, F., & van Egmond, M. (2012). Support for redistribution and the paradox of immigration. Journal of European Social Policy, 22(3), 288-304. DOI: 10.1177/0958928712440198[details]

Fransen, L., & Burgoon, B. (2012). A market for worker rights: explaining business support for international private labour regulation. Review of International Political Economy, 19(2), 236-266. DOI: 10.1080/09692290.2011.552788[details]

2017

Burgoon, B. M. (2017). When it comes to globalisation, not all radicalisms are created equal. In T. Beck, & G. Underhill (Eds.), Quo Vadis? Identity, policy and the future of the European Union: VOXEU Book (pp. 47-54). (VOX EU Book Series). CEPR Press.